THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has escrowed its source codes to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) in Manila after fixing several “glitches” discovered during the conduct of mock elections.
Comelec Chairman Andres D. Bautista said the
glitches were earlier found in the source codes of the Election Management System (EMS), consolidation and canvassing system (CCS) and the vote-counting machines (VCM) and have already been remedied.
“We had an end-to-end demonstration on Thursday at the Santa Rosa [Laguna] warehouse and I was informed that it was successful. As far as the source codes are concerned, I think we are already okay,” Bautista told reporters.
The Comelec, service provider Smartmatic International and international certifier SLI Global Solutions had to
redo the trusted build of the EMS, CCS and VCMs earlier this week after “issues” were found in their respective source
codes. After fixing the source codes, the Comelec was already able to escrow the corrected EMS, as well as those of CCS and VCMs on Thursday at the BSP vault.